MGT 462 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Individualism, Instrument Landing System Localizer, Masculinity
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Employment relationship is more than an exchange between an individual and an employer. Includes the government, all enterprise owners, and all employees. Countries with more centralized bargaining levels generally have less wage flexibility. Regulatory restrictions such as maximum hours of week. Degree of legal restriction in hiring and firing workers. Culture - shared mental programming which is rooted in the values, beliefs, and assumptions held in common by a group of people and which influences how information is processed. National cultures - most of a country"s inhabitants share a national character. Power distance - extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. Uncertainty avoidance - extent to which a culture programs its members to feel either uncomfortable or comfortable in unstructured situations. Unstructured situations - unknown, surprising, different from usual and societies differ in the degree to which they try to control the uncontrollable.
